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...Your version of Sarah Palin's adieu to Alaska as beat poetry was so popular it even inspired an encore performance using the ex-Alaska Governor's tweets. How did the idea first come about? I had been on The Tonight Show a couple of weeks earlier telling a story, and then some papers tried to manufacture a feud between Conan and myself, which is, of course, ridiculous. So they called a few weeks later to do the Palin bit to solidify that we weren't feuding - the Conan O'Brien show and I are really good friends - and that...
...production boss in the '80s, called Hughes "the Steven Spielberg of youth comedy." Well, his movies were popular, with big grosses on spare budgets, but it's better to find literary analogues. In his facility for spinning the fullest comedy out of the frailest situation, he was the movies' version of playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The stay-at-home dad morphed into Mr. Mom; the annoying guy next to you became the Steve Martin-John Candy hit Planes, Trains and Automobiles. And as a portraitist of teen angst, he was a sunnier Salinger, a comedic S.E. Hinton. Anyway, Hughes was just...
...that I've seen the movie, I understand the Paramount bosses' urge to suppress it. G.I. Joe has plenty of narrative strands, most of them taken from the '80s TV cartoon show and Marvel comic version of the antique Hasbro soldier figures, but they are woven clumsily. Director Stephen Sommers, who did the Mummy trilogy, has no skill with actors and little more with the manipulation of real and virtual hardware. We know the theme will be "War is swell," but the film plays like a long slog in the Big Muddy. (See pictures of ninja warriors: from myth...
...change: no one wants a taxpayer-funded bailout like TARP to be the answer every time there's a crisis. And it may be the best opportunity Shelby has in the remainder of his career to get a major piece of legislation written. All players expect the Senate version to be dramatically different from Geithner's proposal, possibly including a single regulator rather than the Treasury Secretary's preferred trio...
...original version of this article included a quote by Areva spokesman Jacques-Emmanuel Saulnier which has been slightly modified...